{"id":2735,"date":"2009-10-30T20:04:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T00:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=2735"},"modified":"2009-10-31T20:34:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T00:34:36","slug":"lchaim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/lchaim\/","title":{"rendered":"L&#8217;Chaim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life Magazine, the photojournalism magazine, was launched as a weekly publication by Time Magazine owner Henry Luce in 1936. When I worked at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\" target=\"_blank\">People Magazine<\/a>, which was started many decades later by the same corporate parent, I was based in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Time-Life_Building\" target=\"_blank\">Time-Life building<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The weekly version of Life was shut down in 1972, but the magazine came back as a monthly in 1978 and continued till 2000, when it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/media\/2007-03-26-life-end-online_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">shut down again<\/a>. The brand survives on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.life.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Internet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the most famous photographs ever taken were first printed in Life, including Alfred Eisenstaedt&#8217;s photo of a sailor kissing a nurse in celebration of the end of World War II.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2744\" style=\"width: 246px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_Eisenstaedt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2744\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2744\" title=\"Vj_day_kiss\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Vj_day_kiss-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Vj_day_kiss-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Vj_day_kiss.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2744\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Given Life&#8217;s impressive history, my heart nearly jumped out of my chest when I recently saw a<a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/christian-francis-roth-comes-back\/\" target=\"_blank\"> September 2008 Fashion Week<\/a> photo of me on the website.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2740\" style=\"width: 405px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.life.com\/image\/82793824\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2740\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2740 \" title=\"82793824\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/82793824.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy Life.com\" width=\"395\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/82793824.jpg 395w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/82793824-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy Life.com. Click for more info.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s meaningless. Maybe when Andy Warhol said, &#8220;In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes,&#8221; he meant to say, &#8220;In the future, everyone will be on Life.com and feel world-famous for 15 minutes.&#8221; If so, don&#8217;t tell me. Allow me to have my delusions of grandeur while you enjoy a musical interlude.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Vvr8AjT0aD0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Vvr8AjT0aD0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: In addition to the <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/pro-detail.php?colid=34&amp;collect=true&amp;id=463\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy Brandes for Francis swear rings<\/a>, I&#8217;m wearing my own <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/pro-detail.php?colid=28&amp;collect=true&amp;id=245\" target=\"_blank\">Cleopatra necklace<\/a> and my <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/pro-detail.php?colid=32&amp;collect=true&amp;id=420\" target=\"_blank\">one-of-a-kind onyx, tsavorite and diamond skull ring<\/a>. The dress is an <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/marc-jacobs-made-anna-run-for-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ossie Clark<\/a> I&#8217;ve worn many times. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life Magazine, the photojournalism magazine, was launched as a weekly publication by Time Magazine owner Henry Luce in 1936. When I worked at People Magazine, which was started many decades later by the same corporate parent, I was based in the Time-Life building. The weekly version of Life was shut down in 1972, but the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/lchaim\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[133,48,41,6,130],"tags":[286],"class_list":["post-2735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-francis-wendy","category-ossie-clark","category-pictures-of-me","category-rings","category-swearing","tag-francis-swear-rings","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2746,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions\/2746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}